Cracked Archive - Weird World
10 Old Toys That Made Sense In Their Era (And Nowhere Else)
Remember that toy that you just had to have because it was based on something wildly popular? And then it turned out to really, really suck? It turns out that's been happening as long as companies have been mass-producing toys.
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- By Tracy V., T.D. Woodward
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1143 Cracked Round-Up: Valentine's Day Edition (?)
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- By CRACKED Staff
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The 6 Most Baffling Serial Crimes
Criminals aren't hard to figure out. Ask any cop. The guy who broke into your car wasn't a mastermind, he was probably looking for something he could sell to buy meth. Still, the world of law enforcement does have its confounding mysteries.
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- By Lorra Jacks
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Cracked Round-Up: Mandatory New Year's Edition
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- By CRACKED Staff
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The 6 Most Ridiculous Abuses of Diplomatic Immunity
Immunity is granted to keep diplomats from being harassed while they do their work in unfriendly nations. It makes sense, but as you can suspect, people abuse the living hell out of it, often to a hilarious and/or terrifying degree.
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- By Evan V. Symon
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The 6 Weirdest Cities People Actually Live In
None of us knows what, exactly, goes into city planning, but somewhere along the line, somebody accidentally CC'ed the insane asylum, and we wound up with the following civilizations that simply should not be.
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- By Kenny Thompson
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If You Could Go Back and Change Anything
Now that's how you overthink a hypothetical question.
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- By Dan Markowitz
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Where Aren’t They Now? 11 Overlooked Deaths of 2011
Each year Cracked takes time to remember the slightly less famous people who maybe didn't revolutionize the PC and music industries, but who still left an interesting little mark on the culture. These are the most overlooked deaths of 2011.
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- By Lisa Skye, Paul Rasche
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The 10 Most Viewed Cracked.com Videos of 2011
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- By CRACKED
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Cracked Round-Up: Can't Stop The Yuletide Edition
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- By CRACKED Staff
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7 Ridiculous Origins of Everyday Words
We find it so fascinating to go back and understand where the words we use actually came from. Yet out of all the times we've done this previously, these origins might just take the cake.
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- By J.F. Sargent
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The 11 Most Unintentionally Creepy Christmas Ornaments
When it comes time to make holiday decorations, the line between festive and nightmarish is razor thin.
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- By Adam Wears, CRACKED Staff
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The 36 Worst Action Figures From Iconic Toy Lines
Every kid knew that there was an inherent risk in asking Santa for an action figure, because parents usually figured that as long as it had the right logo on the box, they were on the safe side. This, naturally, caused many a tear-filled holiday.
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- By Maxwell Yezpitelok, M. Asher Cantrell, Peter File
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The 6 Most Unintentionally Hilarious Superhero Reinventions
Classic comic book characters have successfully been reinvented over the years. But they kept being succesful because the core was the same -- no one would ever mess with that, would they?
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- By Maxwell Yezpitelok, Steve Blair
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6 Real Acts of Self Defense Too Awesome for an Action Movie
These stories are all so far beyond a reasonable point that they need a GPS and a Coast Guard escort to find their way back.
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- By Karl Smallwood
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